Grade Level 

Kindergarten

Content Area

English Language Arts, Math, Art

Standards: 

ELA21.K.8d Identify the beginning and end of a sentence by locating the capital letter and end punctuation.

ELA21.K.23 With prompting and support, manipulate words and/or phrases to create simple sentences, including declarative and interrogative, to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.

MA19.K.4. Connect counting to cardinality using a variety of concrete objects. 

a. Say the number names in consecutive order when counting objects.

 b. Indicate that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted in a set. 

SC15.K.3 Distinguish between living and nonliving things and verify what living things need to survive.

Objective: Students will be able to express their ideas in writing and through artwork. Students will be able to count and graph data.

 For the month of September, we focused our thematic unit on apples. 

Children were able to research and participate in discussions about apples. Based on their knowledge, they completed a nonfiction writing about apples. We then used apples as manipulatives for counting and conducted a taste test to gather data to create a graph. We then used the rest of the apples to create an apple sail boat that the children were able to sail on water using a blow dryer to simulate the wind.